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A by-election will be held for the Chadsmead ward of Lichfield District Council on 30 January 2013 following the disqualification of Conservative Cllr Mike Fryers, for not attending any council meetings for six months.

It is certainly true that UKIP are not a Mark II Conservative Party. However terms like "working class" these days is a bit outdated. UKIP supporters are less likely to have progressed to further education than supporters of the three main parties and are less educated.

A by-election will be held for the Chadsmead ward of Lichfield District Council on 30 January 2013 following the disqualification of Conservative Cllr Mike Fryers, for not attending any council meetings for six months.

◦Demographically, UKIP voters attract men slightly more than women – and the party draws its support disproportionately from older people with fewer qualifications. Whereas 46% of all voters are over 50, and 38% under 40, the figures for UKIP are 71% and 15% respectively. And just 13% of UKIP supporters have university degrees – half the national average (though this partly reflects the age profile: older people generally were less likely to attend university when they were young).

It is certainly true that UKIP are not a Mark II Conservative Party. However terms like "working class" these days is a bit outdated. UKIP supporters are less likely to have progressed to further education than supporters of the three main parties and are less educated.

Surely just by the fact you are voting UKIP shows you have a higher intelligence

To paraphrase the old cliché - insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Time to try something different.

Quote> "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."

Ghandi never said that. It's based on a quote from a trade unionist, Nicholas Klein. All a bit ironic given the views of UKIP's membership with regards to trade unions.

"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America"

◦Demographically, UKIP voters attract men slightly more than women – and the party draws its support disproportionately from older people with fewer qualifications. Whereas 46% of all voters are over 50, and 38% under 40, the figures for UKIP are 71% and 15% respectively. And just 13% of UKIP supporters have university degrees – half the national average (though this partly reflects the age profile: older people generally were less likely to attend university when they were young).

THat poll is out of date and in any case tends to indicate UKIP has a broad appeal amongst most social groups and has less champagne socialists

◦Demographically, UKIP voters attract men slightly more than women – and the party draws its support disproportionately from older people with fewer qualifications. Whereas 46% of all voters are over 50, and 38% under 40, the figures for UKIP are 71% and 15% respectively. And just 13% of UKIP supporters have university degrees – half the national average (though this partly reflects the age profile: older people generally were less likely to attend university when they were young).

It is certainly true that UKIP are not a Mark II Conservative Party. However terms like "working class" these days is a bit outdated. UKIP supporters are less likely to have progressed to further education than supporters of the three main parties and are less educated.

What BS that is!! I support UKIP and I have a BSc degree in Computer Science and now on the way to my masters in Advance Computer Science, I'd say that's makes me quite 'educated'

Who are we referring to here. This woman is a Labour councillor on a unitary authority - which decides policies on schools and childrens social care. Not a minor parish councillor that complains about the bus stop needing repair?

So the Labour party are very happy to have self confessed ex Nazis as councillors?

"A NEWLY elected labour councillor was once second in command of a notorious neo Nazi group”.

Margaret Burke, who won the seat for Bradville last week, was a far right extremist and Hitler devotee when she and her then husband Terry Flynn ran the Milton Keynes November 9th Society during the early 1980s.

They both wore Nazi-style uniforms and recruited gangs of local youths to hand out racist leaflets and daub buildings with swastikas"

The Lib Dems have only just suspended a councillor facing charges of child sex abuse - four months after he was charged. Yet no coverage at all of this?

Why does the media not report these stories about the main parties as big news. Or is a town councillor saying gay marriage causes floods more damaging than alleged child abuse which the party failed to react on for months? Cos to me it suggests you and they do!

Because I am bored of the rather selective onslaught with tales of the misdeeds of UKIP councillors only - even if they are only Vicar of Dibley level parish members. Clearly being a self confessed Nazi ok - as long as you are sorry about it later and join Labour.

Cos lets report everything that councillors get up to or are accused of - for all parties. Because surely all parties are entitled to fair treatment aren't they?

Applying the logic of the critics on here if UKIP apparently believes as a party that gay marriage causes flooding then the Labour party has no problem with ex Nazis and the Lib Dems don't seem to have a problem with child abuse. Clearly nonsense of course - but if it is fine to make the analogy for UKIP why not the other parties?